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We present a mapping system capable of constructing detailed instance-level semantic models of room-sized indoor environments by means of an RGB-D camera. In this work, we integrate deep-learning-based instance segmentation and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Dinh-Cuong Hoang , Todor Stoyanov , Achim J. Lilienthal

To enable robots to comprehend high-level human instructions and perform complex tasks, a key challenge lies in achieving comprehensive scene understanding: interpreting and interacting with the 3D environment in a meaningful way. This…

Recent advances in computer vision facilitate fully automatic extraction of object-centric relational representations from visual-inertial data. These state representations, dubbed 3D scene graphs, are a hierarchical decomposition of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Christopher Agia

Creating accurate spatial representations that take into account uncertainty is critical for autonomous robots to safely navigate in unstructured environments. Although recent LIDAR based mapping techniques can produce robust occupancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Anthony Tompkins , Ransalu Senanayake , Fabio Ramos

3D environment recognition is essential for autonomous driving systems, as autonomous vehicles require a comprehensive understanding of surrounding scenes. Recently, the predominant approach to define this real-life problem is through 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Huizhou Chen , Jiangyi Wang , Yuxin Li , Na Zhao , Jun Cheng , Xulei Yang

Autonomous driving perception faces significant challenges due to occlusions and incomplete scene data in the environment. To overcome these issues, the task of semantic occupancy prediction (SOP) is proposed, which aims to jointly infer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Helin Cao , Sven Behnke

Occupancy prediction plays a pivotal role in autonomous driving. Previous methods typically construct dense 3D volumes, neglecting the inherent sparsity of the scene and suffering from high computational costs. To bridge the gap, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Haisong Liu , Yang Chen , Haiguang Wang , Zetong Yang , Tianyu Li , Jia Zeng , Li Chen , Hongyang Li , Limin Wang

Mesh plays an indispensable role in dense real-time reconstruction essential in robotics. Efforts have been made to maintain flexible data structures for 3D data fusion, yet an efficient incremental framework specifically designed for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Wei Dong , Jieqi Shi , Weijie Tang , Xin Wang , Hongbin Zha

Efficient and scalable 3D occupancy mapping is essential for autonomous robot applications in unknown environments. However, traditional occupancy grid representations suffer from two fundamental limitations. First, explicitly storing all…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Benxu Tang , Yixi Cai , Fanze Kong , Longji Yin , Fu Zhang

We describe an approach to predict open-vocabulary 3D semantic voxel occupancy map from input 2D images with the objective of enabling 3D grounding, segmentation and retrieval of free-form language queries. This is a challenging problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Antonin Vobecky , Oriane Siméoni , David Hurych , Spyros Gidaris , Andrei Bursuc , Patrick Pérez , Josef Sivic

Occupancy grids are the most common framework when it comes to creating a map of the environment using a robot. This paper studies occupancy grids from the motion planning perspective and proposes a mapping method that provides richer data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi

We investigate the task of object goal navigation in unknown environments where the target is specified by a semantic label (e.g. find a couch). Such a navigation task is especially challenging as it requires understanding of semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yash Goel , Narunas Vaskevicius , Luigi Palmieri , Nived Chebrolu , Cyrill Stachniss

We introduce a dual contouring method that provides state-of-the-art performance for occupancy functions while achieving computation times of a few seconds. Our method is learning-free and carefully designed to maximize the use of GPU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jisung Hwang , Minhyuk Sung

We propose NEDS-SLAM, a dense semantic SLAM system based on 3D Gaussian representation, that enables robust 3D semantic mapping, accurate camera tracking, and high-quality rendering in real-time. In the system, we propose a Spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yiming Ji , Yang Liu , Guanghu Xie , Boyu Ma , Zongwu Xie

Robotic surgical subtask automation has the potential to reduce the per-patient workload of human surgeons. There are a variety of surgical subtasks that require geometric information of subsurface anatomy, such as the location of tumors,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Brian Y. Cho , Alan Kuntz

To autonomously navigate and plan interactions in real-world environments, robots require the ability to robustly perceive and map complex, unstructured surrounding scenes. Besides building an internal representation of the observed scene…

Occupancy and 3D object detection are characterized as two standard tasks in modern autonomous driving system. In order to deploy them on a series of edge chips with better precision and time-consuming trade-off, contemporary approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Zichen Yu , Changyong Shu

Holistic understanding and reasoning in 3D scenes are crucial for the success of autonomous driving systems. The evolution of 3D semantic occupancy prediction as a pretraining task for autonomous driving and robotic applications captures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Sathira Silva , Savindu Bhashitha Wannigama , Gihan Jayatilaka , Muhammad Haris Khan , Roshan Ragel

Vision-based 3D semantic occupancy prediction is vital for autonomous driving, enabling unified modeling of static infrastructure and dynamic agents. Global occupancy maps serve as long-term memory priors, providing valuable historical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Shanshuai Yuan , Julong Wei , Muer Tie , Xiangyun Ren , Zhongxue Gan , Wenchao Ding

The completion, extension, and generation of 3D semantic scenes are an interrelated set of capabilities that are useful for robotic navigation and exploration. Existing approaches seek to decouple these problems and solve them one-off.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xujia Zhang , Brendan Crowe , Christoffer Heckman